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Sunflower: A New Approach To Expanding Coverage of African Languages in Large Language Models
Benjamin Akera, Evelyn Nafula Ouma, Gilbert Yiga +11
There are more than 2000 living languages in Africa, most of which have been bypassed by advances in language technology. Current leading LLMs exhibit strong performance on a numbe…
Scoring Root Necrosis in Cassava Using Semantic Segmentation
Jeremy Francis Tusubira, Benjamin Akera, Solomon Nsumba +2
Cassava a major food crop in many parts of Africa, has majorly been affected by Cassava Brown Streak Disease (CBSD). The disease affects tuberous roots and presents symptoms that i…
Mobile community sensing with smallholder farmers in a developing nation; A scaled pilot for crop health monitoring
Daniel Mutembesa, Ernest Mwebaze, Solomon Nsumba +2
Previously, crowdsourcing experiments in surveillance of crop diseases and pest have been trialed as small scale community sensing campaigns with select cohort of smallholder farme…
iCassava 2019 Fine-Grained Visual Categorization Challenge
Ernest Mwebaze, Timnit Gebru, Andrea Frome +2
Viral diseases are major sources of poor yields for cassava, the 2nd largest provider of carbohydrates in Africa.At least 80% of small-holder farmer households in Sub-Saharan Afric…